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   by earbitscom 16y ago

   Do you mean investors like Dave McClure who write in all lower case? Or investors like Matt Coffin, who writes his "you" with a u, even in public posts? Just trying to get a little clarification here. And, to answer your question, more t
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   by earbitscom 16y ago

   Absolutely.
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   by earbitscom 16y ago

   Thanks. As someone who managed $48M in performance marketing, I was destroyed to see what musicians go through when I started promoting my album. I used to drop $2 CD's off at head shops because I thought stoners would like our music. Pe
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   by earbitscom 16y ago

   Hey Bermanoid... We understand all of these dynamics and we know that we have to prove we're not going to go down that route. What you're describing would be very short-sighted of us. Look at it this way, what we're proposing is very much
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   by earbitscom 16y ago

   Yeah...we're forcing ourselves to focus on quality by not charging the band until someone has listened to 30 seconds. If we get a lot of skips, we lose money, so we're forced to focus on the right matches and high quality music. We want t
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   by earbitscom 16y ago

   What kind of computer do you have? It's either on the front or the side. But seriously, I told the team we needed one and they were like, we have more important things to worry about. Haha! We're on it asap! Thanks for the ammo!
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   by earbitscom 16y ago

   Payola wasn't terrible for the musicians who got played. We're making it a model that a brand new band with no following can buy into. For $10 we can play a band 1000 times. They usually get less than 100 fliers for that, most of which g
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   by earbitscom 16y ago

   Hey Mike, I hear you...my partner and I spent thousands of dollars trying "traditional" music marketing tactics - fliers, ads in the LA Weekly, and all of the normal social media that bands use now. What I am sure you know is that nothing
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   by earbitscom 16y ago

   Thanks! You will definitely hear music you know, though. I think you'll be surprised who is trusting us to deliver them value.
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    by earbitscom 16y ago

    Hey grncdr! As you can imagine, when you are building a catalog from scratch and working with every label and artist directly, you can't just fast forward to a massive selection. We wish we could! Almost every artist has been directly re
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    by earbitscom 16y ago

    Hey 9999...I understand your skepticism. The advantage for listeners is no commercials or fees, and flexibility and features that are prohibited when you rely on statutory licenses. We haven't seen that current outlets rely on merit alone
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    by earbitscom 16y ago

    Thanks! Note: You are liking the band when you do that, not us. Bands are going to LOVE us. ;)
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    by earbitscom 16y ago

    Agreed. With personalized streams for every listener, bands with a $10 budget can have the same (albeit scaled down) opportunity as someone with $1000. With terrestrial markets there's no way to start small. Additionally, anyone with a s
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    by earbitscom 16y ago

    I hear where you're coming from but bands spend money on fliers that cost $0.15 a piece, just hoping you'll go home and listen to their music online. We know, because we have done all of that stuff for our own band. For $0.15, we can play
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    by earbitscom 16y ago

    Most of it sounds like we do more than we do, but all of it is necessary up front for the things we enable after you connect. I can assure you that we don't do anything that isn't about making your music experience better.
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    by earbitscom 16y ago

    There will be soon. Thanks for the feedback.
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    by earbitscom 16y ago

    It's easy to build an awesome team when you have a vision people can get behind. Look at our advisors...they are some serious heavy hitters. ;)
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    by earbitscom 16y ago

    Hey Sev, Our algorithm, much like Adwords, will be a combination of ratings, relevancy to a particular user, and only after those things help determine a fit would their bid affect anything. Also, a band who spends more may be introduced t
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    by earbitscom 16y ago

    www.Students4Startups.com is taking the first step at this in Los Angeles, by vetting interns and startups and connecting each other. John Shiple is their CTO and is a great technologist.
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    by earbitscom 16y ago

    No. And boy did we find every picture and fact ever. I wish it was.
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    by earbitscom 16y ago

    Oh no...I finally learned to type around 1998. I moved to L.A. My roommate bailed on me and left me here. I discovered Yahoo! Chat to pass the time and somehow that's what finally forced me to become a better typist. Just tested myself
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    by earbitscom 16y ago

    Also...in High School typing class, I was a two-finger typer. Every morning we had to take a two sentence typing test to see if we had improved. Rather than learn to type like I was supposed to, I just memorized all of the two sentence ph
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    by earbitscom 16y ago

    At my very first internet job, in 1998 or so, I was hired as a temp. They said they wanted me to find websites that would be good publishers for their content network. They said to do so by searching AltaVista for sites, and then looking